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We have a bunch of archived reports in a document library which are linked to an Info path template. That template has become corrupted but luckily we have a working copy of this in a backup folder.

So we are looking to delete the corrupted XSN file and bring in the working XSN file, the problem is as follows:

  1. Cannot delete the corrupted XSN file, each time we delete it reappears!?
  2. If we raname the corrupted XSN file ALL the related XML document files update their reference to the rename file!?
  3. I CAN modify the XML files to point to the working XSN file and all is well BUT i have over 800 XML files which i would rather NOT have to manually edit

Anyone any ideas?

TIA.

S

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I do not quite understand why are you deleting XSN file instead of opening your backuped XSN template, saving it and republishing from its backup copy (and then relinking XML forms to a newly published template)?

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Some other thoughts to try:

  • If the Infopath forms are set to be opened in Filler (it is in library settings, under advanced settings, to open the browser or client), you might want to try repairing Microsoft Infopath and/or clearing Infopath cache on (all) client machines
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The main reason was that I had 700 xml files all referencing the XSN...worked out a way to do it though by runing a script on the XML to update them to point to working XSN. Thanks for your input. –  Stephen Jan 29 '13 at 14:06
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